With support from the California Arts Council, Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom will implement high quality, consistent, culturally responsive and inclusive professional development training in music integration and leadership for literacy, math, and social emotional learning with teachers serving in UTK and TK classrooms in schools of greatest need and concern in San Diego Unified School District. We will offer instruction and facilitation through 8 cohorts, meeting monthly, each serving 20+ teachers, in partnership and collaboration with the district’s department of Visual and Performing Arts. General, Special, and Music Education teachers will team up in these neighborhood cohorts and will learn to teach and lead developmental music together, strengthening each others’ skills, and areas of knowledge for the upliftment of San Diego’s youngest students in many of our most under-resourced and marginalized communities.